On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:09 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:37 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > The installation fiasco continues ... > > > > Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed > > 9.2. However, having done so, when I started it up, I got mostly black > > space where the program should be and I had to kill it to get rid of it. > > > > There are no error messages when I start it from the command line > > (whether as graham or as root), so I don't know what's causing it. > > Tried downloading a new .rpm from Real but the result was the same. > > > > I know it's not a unique problem because I found some discussion of it > > in another forum but no-one had come up with an answer. Have any of you > > guys come across this problem and if so how did you fix it. > > > > Life without BBC playback is inconceivable. I could be going back to > > 9.0 if this can't be fixed. Is it me, or is MDK 9.2 more buggy than > > previous versions? > > Well, I get the same error when I run realplay as well, but I am on 9.1. I > have found that killing the artsd process under the KDE desktop allows > realplay to work fine and then you just need to restart artsd after you are > done with realplay. I suspect that this is because realplay needs to send > sound directly to the sound device which is already in use by artsd. > > One potential solution is to create a sybolic link to /dev/dsp called > something else and tell Realplay to use that for sound. I haven't had time > to try it yet to see if that works.
Exactly how is this last accomplished? I understand the creation of symlinks, but not how to tell RP to use it instead. Thanks, Joseph
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